Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 75
A documentary that recounts the life of Benedetto Croce, the Italian philosopher and senator, and one of the major intellectuals of his era. After the earthquake in Ischia in 1883, in which his parents and his sister died, Benedetto grew up with a passion for philosophy and literature, and learned to transform his pain into determination. His friendship with Giovanni Gentile, the other great intellectual of the period, was fundamental to him. Their friendship lasted from 1896 until the late 1920s, when Croce, who had initially espoused fascism, became an opponent of the regime, whereas Gentile remained one of its foremost supporters. When Croce learned that his friend has been killed, on April 15, 1944, he was deeply struck; after the Liberation, he joined the national unity government, only to be attacked by the Italian Communist Party for his initial support of fascism. Croce’s life, thus, was intertwined with the most significant events of Italian history, becoming a reflection of its conflicts and ideological tensions.
Biography
film director
Pupi Avati
(Bologna, Italy, 1938), after his debut as a musician with the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, started a career as a sales representative, then approached the cinema, debuting in 1968 with Blood Relations. At home with genre cinema, he devoted himself to horror by creating works of worship such as The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Zeder (1982). But it is with the narration of intimate stories often linked to the dimension of memory and the province that defines its own complete and personal poetics, found in films like A School Outing (1983), The Story of Boys & Girls (1989) and Incantato (2003), for which he obtained the David di Donatello as Best Director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Balsamus, l’uomo di Satana (1968), Thomas e gli indemoniati (1970), La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (1975), Bordella (1976), La casa dalle finestre che ridono (1976), Tutti defunti... tranne i morti (1977), Le strelle nel fosso (1979), Aiutami a sognare (1981), Zeder (1983), Una gita scolastica (1983), Noi tre (1984), Impiegati (1985), Festa di laurea (1985), Regalo di Natale (1986), Ultimo minuto (1987), Sposi (1988), Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (1989), Bix (1991), Fratelli e sorelle (1992), Magnificat (1993), Dichiarazioni d’amore (1994), L’amico d’infanzia (1994), L’arcano incantatore (1996), Festival (1996), Il testimone dello sposo (1997), La via degli angeli (1999), I cavalieri che fecero l’impresa (2001), Il cuore altrove (2003), La rivincita di Natale (2004), Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005), La seconda notte di nozze (2005), La cena per farli conoscere (2006), Il nascondiglio (2007), Il papà di Giovanna (2008), Gli amici del bar Margherita (2009), Il figlio più piccolo (2010), Una sconfinata giovinezza (2010), Il cuore grande delle ragazze (2011), Un ragazzo d’oro (2014), Il signor Diavolo (2019), Lei mi parla ancora (2021), Dante (2022), La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario (2023), L’orto americano (2024), Un Natale a casa Croce (2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Avati. SCREENPLAY: Pupi Avati, Luigi Boneschi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cesare Bastelli. EDITING: Ivan Zuccon. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alessandro Marangolo. COSTUMES: Angela Capuano. MUSIC: Rocco De Rosa. SOUNDA: Pompeo Iaquone. CAST: Paolo Spezzaferri, Teresa Cerciello, Chiara Barassi, Roberta Geremicca, Fenicia Rocco e Sabrina Bevilacqua, Benedetta Craveri. PRODUCTION: Minerva Pictures, in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce, Rai Documentari.
CONTACT: Minerva Pictures info@minervapictures.com
